"His re‐entry to life in America, he said, was made more difficult because some Americans believed he had been guilty of cowardice in not committing suicide after his plane was shot down."
#FrancisGaryPowers
1929-1977
Born on this day
www.nytimes.com/1977/08/02/a...
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